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Agriculture and Farming

VID produces professional video for agriculture and AgTech companies — technology demonstrations, farmer education, investor communications, and the video system that communicates agricultural innovation to every audience that needs to act on it.

Video production and infrastructure for agriculture and AgTech companies that need to communicate real innovation to the farmers, investors, and partners who need to act on it.

VID produces professional video assets — technology demonstrations, farmer education, investor communications, field documentation, recruitment video, and more — and installs the Video Operating System that keeps production running every week. So your organization communicates consistently, your pipeline stays informed, and you never scramble to produce content at the moment a planting season, an investor meeting, or a distribution partnership demands it.
The Challenge
  • Your technology or product is genuinely differentiated but the content that represents it is not: The precision agriculture platform, the crop protection chemistry, the soil health program, the seed genetics, the irrigation management system, or the supply chain traceability solution that distinguishes your organization from every competing approach is invisible in a product brochure and an agronomic data table. The content that should make those differentiators visible to farmers, agronomists, retail partners, and institutional investors — field demonstration video, technology mechanism explanation, grower testimonial documentation — either does not exist, was produced once and is now outdated, or does not meet the production standard the audience expects from a company claiming to solve a consequential agricultural challenge.
  • Farmer and grower adoption requires trust that content must build before the first sales call: The farmer evaluating a new crop protection product, the grain operation considering a precision agriculture platform, and the specialty grower assessing a new seed variety are all making consequential decisions with significant financial and operational implications for their farming business. The content that builds the trust, communicates the agronomic credibility, and demonstrates real-world performance in conditions that mirror the farmer's specific operation is the content that determines whether your organization gets a trial — and almost none of it is being produced systematically or distributed through the channels where farmers are actually researching their input and technology decisions.
  • Seasonal content requirements create production bottlenecks that the current team cannot consistently meet: Agriculture is a seasonal business — and the content that supports planting season decisions needs to be ready before planting begins, the content that documents growing season performance needs to be captured when the crops are in the field, and the content that communicates harvest results needs to be produced and distributed before the next planning cycle begins. Most agricultural organizations are producing seasonal content reactively — the production trip is scheduled when someone has time, the field documentation is captured informally, and the content that should be building grower confidence and retail partner conviction is delayed, inconsistent, and frequently out of season by the time it is distributed.
  • Retail and distribution partner content is inconsistently produced and difficult to keep current: Agricultural retail partners, agronomic advisors, and distribution network members are the primary channel through which most agricultural products and technologies reach the farmer — and their ability to recommend a product they have not personally trialed depends entirely on the quality and the recency of the content the manufacturer or developer provides. Most agricultural organizations are producing retail and distribution partner content reactively — a new product launches, a new trial result is published, a new agronomic claim is validated — and the content that should be equipping the channel to sell those products with confidence is delayed, inconsistent, and difficult to access at the moment of the agronomic conversation.
  • Investor communications for AgTech companies do not reflect the commercial progress or the agronomic validation: The trial results, the adoption metrics, the yield impact data, and the commercial traction that make an AgTech investment thesis compelling are communicated in pitch decks and financial models — formats that ask investors to take agronomic claims on faith without the field documentation, the grower testimonial, and the visual evidence of real-world performance that would make those claims credible to an investor who has never been to the field. The investor communications that should be building confidence in the technology roadmap and the commercial execution are instead demonstrating the absence of a systematic communications infrastructure.
  • Sustainability and regenerative agriculture claims require more evidence than they used to: The proliferation of sustainability claims in the agricultural market — from carbon sequestration programs to regenerative certification schemes to precision application efficiency claims — has made every environmental and sustainability assertion more difficult to communicate credibly to the sophisticated audiences evaluating them. The agricultural organizations whose sustainability communications are most credible in this environment are the ones providing the most specific, the most documented, and the most independently verifiable evidence of the outcomes they claim. Video is the format that provides that evidence most compellingly — because it shows the field, the soil, the crop, and the farmer's experience in a format that is significantly more difficult to fabricate than a written sustainability report.
The Opportunity

Agriculture is the industry where the gap between laboratory performance and field performance is the most consequential commercial distinction in any product category — and video is the format that closes that gap most efficiently for every audience that needs to evaluate agricultural products and technologies.

A crop protection product with a 94 percent efficacy rating in controlled trials is a claim. A video of that product applied to a commercial farmer's field — filmed across the growing season, showing the treated and untreated comparison at 30 days, 60 days, and harvest — is evidence. An investor who reads about the trial data and an investor who watches the field performance documented in real growing conditions are in fundamentally different positions in their evaluation. The video is what moves the evaluation from the claim to the conviction.

This matters because agricultural purchasing decisions are among the most conservative in any industry. Farmers are making decisions that affect their entire season's yield, their family's income, and the long-term health of the land they are responsible for — with input costs that can represent a significant portion of their operating budget. The trust required to adopt a new product, a new technology, or a new agronomic practice is earned through accumulated evidence — field demonstrations, grower testimonials, and documented performance in conditions that mirror the farmer's specific operation, crop, and climate. Video is the format that accumulates that evidence most efficiently and distributes it most compellingly to the audiences who need it.

The AgTech dimension adds the investor communications challenge that is specific to companies trying to communicate the commercial potential of agricultural innovation to institutional investors who may not have deep agricultural domain expertise. The AgTech investor who understands the technology at the engineering level but cannot evaluate the agronomic claim needs to see the technology working in the field — with a farmer explaining what it means for their operation in plain language, with the performance data visualized against the baseline, and with the commercial traction documented in a format that translates agricultural outcomes into financial outcomes. Video is the format that makes that translation most effectively.

The channel and distribution dimension is also significant and underutilized. The agronomic advisor who recommends a new product to a farmer is making a professional credibility commitment — and the quality and the specificity of the content that supports that recommendation determines whether the advisor feels confident enough to make it. An agronomy advisor who has watched a professional field demonstration video of a product performing in conditions similar to their growers' fields is in a completely different position than one who has read a product label and a trial summary. The content investment that equips the channel to recommend with confidence is the content investment with the highest return in agricultural marketing.

“What an experience!! Thank you for all the coordination, everyone that was here was so great! Looking forward to meeting and talking about all things post production. Already have some ideas for Season 2!!”

Beth Gulotta
Quiet The Clock

"We heard back from our client this morning. He’s thrilled with the videos. Thanks again. It was an absolute pleasure to work with you on this project."

Heather Langhus
Franke + Fiorella

VID team, thank you for the strong work on the NERIS sizzle reel. It is now embedded on the redesigned NERIS homepage and will sit there for the next six months. Appreciation you all for the care and follow-through you brought to this. The reel is a real asset to the project, and I look forward to working together again.

Dustin Andres
Fire Safety Research Institute

"YouTube drove more sales than ever in February! 16.38% of new customers reported finding us on YouTube and 30% of non-word-of-mouth responses! (26% YTD)."

Brennan Angel
Jaquish Biomedical
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The Right Fit

VID's agriculture and AgTech clients share a specific profile. They are established organizations — crop protection companies, seed developers, precision agriculture platform providers, soil health and fertility companies, agricultural equipment manufacturers, supply chain and traceability technology providers, and regenerative agriculture program administrators — with genuine agronomic or technological differentiation and a communications challenge that their current content operation is not fully solving.

You are the right fit if:

  • You are a crop protection, seed, or specialty input company whose product performance in real field conditions is your primary commercial differentiator — and whose current content does not document and distribute that performance at the level the agronomic audience evaluating it requires
  • You are a precision agriculture platform, farm management software, or agricultural data company whose technology's value to the farmer is demonstrated through operational efficiency, yield improvement, or input optimization — and whose product demonstration content does not yet communicate that value at the system level in the operational context that matters to the farmer evaluating it
  • You are an AgTech company at Series A through Series C whose investor communications, grower adoption content, and retail partner enablement materials need to be more systematic, more professionally produced, and more consistently distributed than your current team can achieve alongside the primary product development and commercial work
  • You are an agricultural input or technology company whose retail and distribution channel is not equipped to recommend your products with confidence because the content that supports the agronomic recommendation conversation is outdated, inconsistent, or difficult to access at the moment it is needed
  • You are a regenerative agriculture program, a carbon sequestration initiative, or a sustainable agriculture certification organization whose environmental and agronomic claims need to be documented and communicated to the corporate buyers, institutional investors, and regulatory audiences that are evaluating them with increasing sophistication and skepticism
  • You are an agricultural organization preparing for a major commercial moment — a new product launch, a new market entry, a significant trial result announcement, or an investor raise — whose communications infrastructure needs to be ready before the moment rather than assembled under the pressure of the announcement
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